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1 (Let me) praise, praise the gold table! 2 May there be auspiciousness in the gold table! 1 བོད་ལ་ཐབ་་་མོ་བོད།། 2 ཐབ་་་མོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག།། 26 1 (Let me) praise, praise the stove deity! 2 May there be auspiciousness in the stove deity! 1 བོད་ལ་དཀྱིལ་ཀ་་མོ་བོད།། 2 དཀྱིལ་ཀ་་མོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག། 1 44 (Let me) praise, praise the central pillar goddess! 2 May there be auspiciousness in the central pillar goddess! 1 བོད་ལ་གསེར་ོ་ནང་ོ་བོད།། 2 གསེར་ོ་ནང་ོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག། 1 (Let me) praise, praise the gold inner door! 2 May there be auspiciousness in the gold inner door! 1 བོད་ལ་ཉལ་ས་གསེར་གཞི་བོད།། 2 ཉལ་ས་གསེར་གཞི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག། 1 (Let me) praise, praise the square gold bed! 2 May there be auspiciousness in the square gold bed! 27 28 29 While they sing this song, one woman holds a bottle of liquor <strong>and</strong> another holds a bowl. They offer liquor to every man, beginning with the girl's closest relative. The men must offer money to the women. The closest relative presents more than others. While the men are offering money, the men exaggerate the amount <strong>and</strong> also request the women to 44 The home deity resides in the central pillar. •48•
sing beautifully <strong>and</strong> loudly. For example, a man who is offered liquor <strong>and</strong> presents ten RMB, says that he presented 10,000 RMB <strong>and</strong> adds that he cannot hear the women <strong>and</strong> girls' singing, implying that they should sing very loudly. The women offer liquor three times to each man <strong>and</strong> the men offer money three times. The village females sing the song repeatedly for approximately one <strong>and</strong> a half hours to accumulate more money. The Girl's Father Gives Her Tibetan Robes <strong>and</strong> Ornaments When the song is about to finish, the girl's parents present all the Tibetan robes <strong>and</strong> ornaments they prepared for the girl in front of the villagers. Next, the father says that they could not prepare much for their daughter <strong>and</strong> promises that they will continue to help her in the future. Parents in the early twenty-first century say that they will support their daughters to continue their education, <strong>and</strong> to become government employees. After presenting robes <strong>and</strong> ornaments, the sngags pa asks the village females to connect the skra lung to the girl's braids. The skra lung must be joined to the braids at the girl's front. Normally skra lung are connected to the braids behind the girl's back; the hair changing ritual is the only exception. Then, village men <strong>and</strong> boys ask the females to stop singing <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong> up. Sometimes, they forcibly pull the females to st<strong>and</strong> if they are reluctant to do so. The women count the money <strong>and</strong> entrust it to a responsible older woman. Later they divide it equally among all the village females. The helpers invite all the women <strong>and</strong> girls to the meal room to have a meal of tea, fried bread, steamed stuffed dumplings, steamed buns, <strong>and</strong> radish soup. Then helpers offer the same food to the village males. Helpers Make Orations to the Sngags pa, Hairdresser, <strong>and</strong> Village Women, While Presenting Gifts to Them Songs of reward are sung to village women <strong>and</strong> the sngags pa. After the meal, two men from the sha nye give orations to the sngags pa, hairdresser, <strong>and</strong> the village females, •49•
Page 3 and 4: A Tibetan Girl's Hair Changing Ritu
Page 5 and 6: ACCLAIM This is a remarkably carefu
Page 7 and 8: PREPARATIONS THE DAY BEFORE THE PAR
Page 9 and 10: THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY • Guests
Page 11 and 12: Figure 28 The A zhang zhang bo, Phu
Page 13 and 14: and value with the
Page 15 and 16: PART ONE INTRODUCTION
Page 17 and 18: hair, and a horse;
Page 19 and 20: current work is therefore significa
Page 21 and 22: Buddha, on the fifteenth day of the
Page 23: selling wheat, rapeseed, an
Page 26 and 27: INTRODUCTION We now turn to the mai
Page 28 and 29: zhang zhang bo at the party, <stron
Page 30 and 31: colored threads. The eight panels w
Page 32 and 33: attendees are offered food, regardl
Page 34 and 35: Friends The girl's family may invit
Page 36 and 37: 'bod. 26 PREPARATIONS THE DAY BEFOR
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Page 40 and 41: 3 ཆ་གཉིས་དེ་ག
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Page 44 and 45: 1 33 Sheep wool is required when ha
Page 46 and 47: 1 བཟོ་པ་ཀོང་ེ
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Page 52 and 53: praising them. The men say that the
Page 54 and 55: THE EVENING PARTY Welcoming the Mat
Page 56 and 57: Welcoming Paternal Relatives <stron
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Page 64 and 65: INTRODUCTION Dpal mo mtsho was thir
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Page 68 and 69: •66• Mkhas grub 1980 chang ma y
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Page 72 and 73: PREPARATIONS Food On the twenty-six
Page 74 and 75: GUESTS Maternal Relatives Dpal mo m
Page 76 and 77: Name Birth Year Relationship Gu ru
Page 78 and 79: VILLAGERS GATHERED ON THE PARTY DAY
Page 80 and 81: two lambskin robes, one phrug robe,
Page 82 and 83: 1 As a rule, it is the hundred ma s
Page 84 and 85: 3 ་ནོར་ག་གམ་མ
Page 86 and 87: 2 1 ོད་དས་གཙང་
Page 88 and 89: Dngos grub said, "Don 'grub." 72 'j
Page 90 and 91: THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY Guests Sat i
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Page 98 and 99: Dngos grul replied: 1 ཞང་་
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Dngos grub replied: 1 ད་ཁྱ
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1 ་ག་དམར་བོ་ན
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girl." Next, each A zhang a
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CONCLUSION The described ritual sig
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Figure 10. Dpal mo mtsho wears a ts
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Figure 13. Upper part of the skra l
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Figure 15. Rna tog sbal ba. •110
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Figure 17. Dpal mo mtsho wears a gl
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Figure 19. Dpal mo mtsho wears gseb
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Figure 21. Gor mo phyi is put on a
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Figure 23. The rtsam 'bol. •118
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Figure 25. Skal bzang sgrol ma (b.
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Figure 29. Dpal mo mtsho offers a b
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Figure 33. Dpal chen presents gifts
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GLOSSARY A zhang the girl's materna
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tsam 'bol a bowl of rtsam pa on top
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NON-ENGLISH TERMS Wiley Tibetan Eng
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Wiley Tibetan English pinyin Chines
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Su sprang thar rgya mtsho. 1996. Gr
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